Pygmania

The following item appeared on the "20s and 30s at the JCC" email newsletter [that I'm still subscribed to for whatever reason]: It reminded me immediately of excellent ~content~ we had posted here many moons ago, so I came here to post about it and keep the thread going. I typed out the post title, "of moons and menses," pasted the screenshot above and then went digging for the cross reference. And here's what I found: So yeah, I already made a post with the same title 3 years and 1 month ago. It's always nice to know that one has not evolved, that creativity travels in cycles rather than lines, that cognition is prone to eclipse. Right?

23andme just told me that I have no African Hunter-Gatherer ancestry. Heavy stuff. While I try to assimilate this heavily destabilizing information, why don't you enjoy an exploration of "the genetics of African Hunter-Gatherers"? Disappearing Way of Life Ancient Lineages Keepers of Diversity Pygmy Genetics  Linguistic Legacy Curious about African Hunter-Gatherer history, art, and traditions? Explore a few of the many nuances that make this population distinct.  Armed with this information you may now go forth and honey-hunt! Deep Forest Sounds of the Aka Pygmy People  "Intangible Heritage" 🤔   Intro to Khoisan Clicking Languages Confession: I initially misread "Khoe" as "Khloé"

It began innocently enough. I'd wanted to download a decent Android app for logging my monthly cycle, on account of that shit don't belong in gcal no more. Can you guess what    ± 0   is code for? The app I picked turned out to be a super deluxe period tracker extraordinaire complete with a tumblr presence ( blog.glowing.com ; teh lulz) and infographics  delusions of grandeur: Dear app that tracks the whereabouts of my uterine lining: please, take yourself less seriously. You have my permission. This post is part of a series on menarche and ritualisms and more ™  (oh, my!) See the first installment, conveniently titled Menarche: Archaisms and More!

menarche (n.) 1896, from German menarche (1895), from Greek men (genitive menos ) "month" (see moon (n.)) + arkhe "beginning" (see archon ).   That is to say, the time of a woman's first menstruation. Please, let Wikipedia educate you: When a Japanese girl has her first period, the family sometimes celebrates by eating red-colored rice and beans ( sekihan ) . The color of blood and the red of sekihan are not related*. All the rice of ancient times of Japan was red. Since rice was precious in ancient Japan (usually, millet was eaten), it was eaten only during the celebration. Sekihan is the tradition of an ancient custom. The celebration is kept a secret from extended family until the rice is served.  In Australia , the Aborigines treat a girl to "love magic". She is taught the ways of womanhood by the other women in her tribe. Her mother builds her a hut to which she confines herself for the remainder of her menses. The hut ...

Robes!!!

can't make this shit up. Yet, upon further research... "I'm stuck in a closet and its name is O'ahu ." ...maybe I don't much mind the alohawear movement, after all.  "I live in O'ahu, too." Clooney doesn't mind it, either.  "I like to  shave off my beard every 20 months or so." And now, for a small tangent. For more information or to sign up for hula classes, please visit  http://www.halaunameakanu.com Also of interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrie_Monarch_Festival PS: CHECK YOUR EMAIL

From last week's NYT Magazine. "A dog will polish the bowl, but a cat always leaves a little bit. It's like an offering." Christopher Walken

  The pidyon haben , ( Hebrew : פדיון הבן ‎) or redemption of the first born son , is a mitzvah in Judaism whereby a Jewish firstborn son is redeemed by use of silver coins from his birth-state of sanctity. The redemption is attained by giving five silver coins to a Kohen (a patrilineal descendant of the priestly family of Aaron ).             It says in Numbers: And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites ... And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the L ORD , as the L ORD commanded Moses. The Shulkhan Arukh states that when a Jewish woman gives birth to a firstborn male by natural means, then the child must be "redeemed". The father of the child must "redeem" the child from a known Kohen representing the original Temple priesthood, for the sum of five silver Shekels , or equiva...

Prende was a goddess of love in the Albanian folklore. She was the wife of Perendi and referred to in Albanian legends aszoja e bukuris ("the queen of beauty"), while her sacred day was Friday. When Albania became Christianized in the early Middle Ages, Prende was identified by the Catholic Church as Saint Anne, mother of Virgin Mary Albanian: Shënepremte or Prende, known in Gheg dialect as Prenne or Petka. The zana e malit is an Albanian mythological creature (Albanian: Zane or Zëre in southern Albania) ("fairy of the mountain" in English), zana (as a definite noun), or zanë (plural) of pre-Roman Paleo-Balkan origin. Its etymology is related to Latin Diana its also simil ar to the Bardha. The Zana are thought to have observed the speeches at theLeague of Prizren at 1878.   In Northern Albania and  Kosovo   every mountain was said to have its own zana, who appeared as a fair maiden found bathing naked in mountain streams .  The zana is believ...

WELCOME TO PYGMYLAND  May I take your coat?

mannn, they needa get around to this shit

The below is taken from tomorrow's inquisition reading, which I'll have you know is an entire book, titled The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. * * * "'The peoples of these lands have different laws, because some worship the sun, some fire, some the trees, some serpents, and others the first thing they encounter in the morning.  Still others worship images and idols. . . ' Mandeville related these facts at the beginning of the second part of his travels in speaking of Chana, a small island off the Indian coast. . . . Menocchio's mental universe now consisted of Inda and Cathay and islands inhabited by cannibals, Pigmies and men with the heads of dogs.  It was on the subject of Pigmies that Mandeville wrote a page destined to enjoy an extraordinary success: 'they are people short in stature, who are about three spans long: and they are beautiful and graceful, both men and women, because of their smallness.  They marry whe...

Polari Swardspeak Bugpymychasing Moffietaal of the Cape Coloured Community EXAMPLE OF MOFFIETAAL: Varda that Beulah! Vast mitzi. She's a chicken and probably Priscilla and I don't need Jennifer Justice in my life right now.    Translation: Look at that beauty! Very me. He's young and probably a policeman and I don't need trouble with the law in my life at the moment. EXAMPLE OF BUGCHASING:

Old European  ( alteuropäisch ) is the term used by Hans Krahe (1964) for the language of the oldest reconstructed stratum of European hydronymy (river names) in Central and Western Europe. The character of these river names is pre-Germanic and pre-Celtic and dated by Krahe to the 2nd millennium BC. German linguist Theo Vennemann has suggested that the language of the old European hydronyms was agglutinative and preindoeuropean, however this stands in contrast to the more generally accepted view that the hydronyms are of Indo-European origin and Theo Vennemann's theory has been criticised as being seriously flawed.

www.ecoledeseduction.com plus this hilarity , when it tries to engage with the real world

"Girl from Ipati, Greece," by Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraïdari, circa 1930 It reminds me of Pygmalion.  Just noticed the tznius headgear, sweet.  But gorgeous old picture, no?  "Gorgeous, form of"